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Claudia Drezner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > They were acquitted of all charges! Hence, they > aren't guilty. Aaaaaawwww, Claudy Waudy is must be very wewwy nwice in your world where the fwairies spwinkle dusty wusty and make shortbwead and all pway together nicewy and no one who's acquitted of a crimey wimey is ever guilty wuilty..

Claudia Drezner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Dobson and Norris were found not guilty, > yet after we did away with our double jeopardy > laws (on the strength of the inquiry), they're > back in the dock. It stinks! Geez you're boring AND creepy 'Claudia'. scamper along now why don't you

sillywoman Wrote: > Edited to add that I would be gutted, just gutted > if I felt that I was leading women to feel that > they had 'failed' in any way whatever kind of > birth they have. > > Retiring now to consider whether I'm in the right > job, & lick my wounds. Sillywoman having been to your classes I can honestly say that I feel that the very last thing you did was to make any of us feel that way, you gave a very balanced and honest account of the potential pros and cons of home / hospital birth, including the potential risks, and you were very supportive about whatever kind of birth people were hoping for / ended up having, always being at pains to reassure us all that there was not a 'perfect birth' that we would have failed in some way if we didn't achieve, or that home birth or natural birth was in some way a 'superior achievement' to hospital birth, a birth with intervention, c-section etc.. Littlemoo, thank you for sharing your story on this thread, Im so sorry for you loss

If she is crying for that long and is not consolable could there be another problem like reflux or lactose intolerance that is causing her pain at night? I'm sure you've already thought of that but I think if she's crying for 9 or 10 hours at night then there could well be something causing her discomfort rather than it just being that she is not able to self settle?

Thomas Micklewright Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Im very suprised to see such an anti-hunt react > from people, whats the difference between hunting > and killing a fox and keeping a cow in a shed all > its life and then cutting its throat? > > you really can't see any difference at all between foxes being hunted for fun and cows being killed for food? >

the white company socks also don't come off, these

Genius isn't it! Sadly less genius was my mum giving us a carrier bag each to put our stocking presents in to take to bed with us at the end of the day rather than leaving them scattered all over the floor, and one fateful year not realising that at the bottom of my carrier bag was the receipt for said stocking presents...a very sad moment. I remember rushing into my twin brother's room brandishing the receipt as the terrible realisation hit me, and us rushing upstairs to confront mum, who was mortified...we had been so completely sold on her story, with no suspicions at all well beyond the age that our peers had ceased to believe, that she said she literally thought we would believe until we went to university. I have to say, I think she's right, I was no where near starting to doubt it, and though I can't remember our exact age, I do know we were at secondary school.:-$

To get around the fact that some kids would tell us 'my mum/dad says father christmas isn't real..or ...'we've seen them putting our stockings out'...or...'mum admitted she does our stockings..' etc, our mum always told us that Father Christmas only went to houses that believed in him, and that those kids who were saying he didn't visit their house and that their parents filled their stockings were right, he didn't go to their houses, because why would he bother going to houses where the parents were doing stockings when he was so busy delivering to the kids who did believe in him and whose parents weren't going to be doing stockings etc. Worked like a charm, we believed for years after our friends did and were never alerted to the truth by friends who knew it wasn't true, as we just felt sorry for them for missing out on the real Father Christmas by having non-believing parents! (I'm a little embarrassed to admit!)

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And > > Can I get a Coffee. No you cant the Assistant will > get if for you. Worse is when people say they're going to 'grab' a coffee, like their life is just sooooo high octane that they literally have to snatch a coffee while in mid run like they're having to grapple for a water bottle without losing valuable seconds like elite runners in the marathon...make my jaw set whenever I hear it

Chener books near the EDT roundabout, a couple of doors up from Cafe Nero. Green Cuisine is on the opposite side of the road, a few doors up from the EDT pub

You can hire number tins from Green Cuisine cookery shop opposite Chener Books I believe

When you join several other people waiting for the green man at a zebra crossing, after a while think 'this is taking a bl**dy age' and then realise that none of the people who got there before you have pressed the button.

wake to sleep is a method whereby you disrupt a baby's sleep cycle so that they start a new one and hopefully sleep through the time they usually wake up if it's a habitual waking. I think if it was going to work in terms of breaking the habit of a habitual waking then it would take 3 days or so of the baby not waking up at their habitual time, because you were using this method, to change the habit. Some people I know have found it to work brilliantly, i.e the baby has slept through the time they usually get up, others have not found it worked - the baby still wakes at the same time. People also use it to lengthen naps if a baby always wakes at the first sleep cycle of 30-45 mins, whatever it is in the case of your baby. (i.e you might do the jiggle at 20 mins or 30 mins.)

thanks this is all really useful - can I ask, did people find that prices on autotrader or similar sites where they found the car advertised, were indeed lower than when they arrived at cargiant, unless they bought finance? We are also cashbuyers and if the cars are 800 quid more than advertised as some of the reviewers complained, then it somewhat lowers the price gap between cargiant and its competitors so may not be at tempting to go there...

Yes you want to jiggle them enough to disrupt the sleep cycle they're in and start a new one, but not enough to wake them up properly, the horror! It's been a while since I read it but if I remember correctly in the baby whisperer it says to put a hand on the tummy (or more likely back if miss jb is a tummy sleeper now that she's older) and jiggle them, or replace a dummy if they have one etc (guessing miss jb doesn't have a dummy but just to give you an idea of the degree of of 'waking' that's suggested.) I tried this (with some success) a few months ago when mini sailor was a few months old to lengthen naps, if anything I found I wasn't waking her enough, for fear of waking her completely! I guess if you can get them to stir properly and maybe open their eyes for a second or two then that would be ideal - but dicey!

We were hoping to buy a second hand car from cargiant last week but at the last minute we were put off by finding a few reviews on the web which basically said they were fairly dodgy, i.e even though they have an infamous 114 point check people were driving their car home to find it had wheels that would be lucky to scrape through an MOT, broken lighter, dodgy windscreen wiper, and sometimes even bigger probs with engine, gears etc, and that cargiant were basically totally disinterested in this when they contacted customer services. Also a few reviews saying that when they got there the asking price for the car was 700/800 more than on the classified on autotrader and the guy who runs it said when they got there that the autotrader ad price was only if you bought finance etc. Also some people saying the car they found on autotrader was not a photograph of the actual car at cargiant, and the actual car had a bumper falling off, scratches etc, and the owner explained that 'autotrader photos may not be photos of the same car' etc! Unsurprisingly we decided not to go and buy the car that day, but I would be interested to hear other people's experiences of cargiant, I do see a lot of cargiant stickers in cars round here so lots of people do seem to use them. Also, if you type the car we want to buy into autotrader to do a search, almost all of them are being sold by cargiant, you would be hard pushed to find one that isn't from there, so not sure how many options we have! Some reviews on the web were more favourable, and of course I factor in that you don't know who has written reviews and their veracity but I can't help feeling there's no smoke without fire?

thanks, that's useful peterstorm1985!

I have heard good things about wake to sleep method working, and I think the good thing is that if you did it for 3 nights in a row and it wasn't working, then I think you could give up, safe in the knowledge you had given it a whirl? In the babywhisperer she says to do the jiggle 30 mins before the usual wake time (5:15) but somewhere else - I actually think it may have been on a post on a different thread by the sleep expert who sometimes posts on the forum childsleepsolutions - apologies to her if I'm misremembering - it says 60 mins, so you would try at 4:45. I am categorically not a sleep expert - ha! But to my mind it makes more sense to try 30 mins as it suggests in baby whisperer, as you would be disrupting the last sleep cycle miss jb is doing which I would have thought would be the idea, but perhaps if childsleepsolutions reads this post, she can explain the sleep science behind doing it at an hour rather than my foggy guesswork! Hope it works!

Is there a reason not to give milk though? why would you give it a swerve? do you feel there's a reason not to give milk over 1 year old? (not being argumentative by the way, genuinely interested as my daughter will be turning 1 in a couple of months and interested in differing opinions!)

I'm interested in this too, how do you mean Sophie? Give neither cow's milk or formula? What would you give instead?

Sorry to be dull, but does anyone know if you can get mobile phone insurance for a second hand phone? My brother has upgraded and kindly given me his i-phone 3gs, but of course my usual phone insurers won't insure it as it isn't new. Is the only way round this to try to put it on home contents insurance (an 'away from home' clause I guess) or has anyone found insurers who will insure a second hand phone? many thanks for any advice

My best leggings - the ones that wash best and haven't bagged at the knee are from American Apparel (I know it's quite a trendoid shop and you wouldn't catch me in a neon unitard but good leggings!) From memory they come up quite big (perhaps cos an american brand, I notice the same with Gap) so I would go for the smaller size if between sizes.. Hundreds of colours and nice and long, I'm average height but I like my leggings to reach low on the ankle not half way up the calf! look here

I think there's a second hand beco gemini in Merry Go Round, the second hand children's clothes shop on Half Moon Lane at the moment, was in there yesterday and I'm sure I saw one. though having said that...maybe I'm confused and it was a rose and rebellion that I glimpsed if they stock them...

Thanks all, today I will not be adjusting times by putting her down half an hour later because she got up later as I would normally do, I will just stick to usual time and see what happens. Tho I suspect it is to do with developmental stuff as opposed anything I can change by the timing of the nap as last night she woke up at 5am to try to scale her cot and practice kneeling, just as she's been doing in the naps....so think that may be the answer....hope she gets bored of practicing this soon!

You are welcome to come and try our beco gemini on with your little boy in it if you'd like to see one up close and see how it feels, we are in central East D.